The Executive Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service, Dr. Zacch Adedeji, has urged lower-cadre income earners to watch for their January salary to assess the impact of the country’s new tax laws compared to the old laws.

Adedeji, speaking during TVC’s Journalists Hangout on Tuesday, said lower-cadre income earners would experience reduced taxes, which would be reflected in January 2026.

He explained that new tax laws sought to protect Nigerians, not to increase their burden.

According to him, the new laws state that critical items that would hamper Nigerians’ disposable income, such as food and transportation, are exempted from transactional taxes.

“By the time the salary is being paid by the end of January, the salary earner in that lower cadre will confirm compared to what they’ve paid under the old law,” he said.

He told Nigerians to ignore the rumors and claims peddled around the new tax laws.

“You can see now that we are on the 13th of January, all those myths… You can see that those things were nowhere to be found,” he added.